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• Saturday Breakfast Club

  • Start
    September 13, 2025
  •  
  • End
    May 09, 2026
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  • Schedule
    9 sessions
  • Location
    Prairie Cafe and Bakery

  Join us at the Prairie Cafe in Middleton Hills for a fun breakfast filled with great coffee and even better conversation! Feel free to stay as long as you like.

  We each take care of our own bills, and don’t hesitate to bring along any friends you’d like. Hope to see you there!

  Questions? Contact Diane Morgenthaler

  
  

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• NFL Book Club

  • When
    October 23, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Home of Consuelo Lopez

  

  I’m Sorry for My Loss, Rebecca Little & Colleen Long

  Leader: Joy Rice

  Home of Consuelo Lopez

  Questions? Contact Dana Erlandsen or Julie Underwood

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• Leadership Series: Build Your Thoughtfully Fit® Core for Resilience and Results

  • When
    October 29, 2025
  •  
    7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
  • Location
    WI Youth Symphony Orchestras
  • Registered
    57 registrants

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  Build Your Thoughtfully Fit® Core for Resilience and Results

  Speaker: Darcy Luoma, CEO & Founder, Darcy Luoma Coaching and Consulting

  Wednesday, October 29 | 7:30 - 9:00 am
  Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras
  Leadership Series Open to All

  $30 Member Rate, $35 for non-members and guests

  Registration includes light breakfast and coffee

  Online Registration Closes Friday, October 24

  Who Should Attend: Emerging and established women leaders in Madison area, including members of TEMPO Madison, are encouraged to seek valuable insights that will enhance their career advancement and contribute to their leadership success.

  Are you ready for the next curveball life throws your way? The reality is, life is filled with challenges, change, and uncertainty. Relationships have conflict, you get blindsided, you feel stuck, and you don’t always handle yourself the way you’d like. The highest-performing leaders and teams train to clear these hurdles so they have the resilience to get results – despite the obstacles. You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control what you do next. That’s what Darcy learned first-hand when her life fell apart in the most shocking way. Drawing on her harrowing personal journey and decades of coaching across 48 different industries, Darcy reveals three powerful steps you can use immediately to clear the hurdles standing in your way of peak performance. So you get results, instead of regrets!

  *This program will involve a brief mention of a sexual crime. Click here to learn more .

  This keynote is designed to help participants:

  • Develop resilience
  • Learn to face obstacles head-on until you succeed.
  • Navigate uncertainty
  • Keep a cool head when times get tough.
  • Get off autopilot
  • Learn to challenge your default reaction and respond more thoughtfully.
  • Feel energized
  • Fill the room with a sense of excitement and renewed motivation.
  • Leave with actionable takeaways
  • Give attendees a new process they can use immediately.

  Agenda

  7:30 am Coffee and Rolls

  7:45 am Welcome 

  • Jennifer Winding, President, TEMPO Madison
  • Anne Sappenfield, President, TEMPO Madison Foundation
  • Michelle A. Kaebisch, Executive Director & Philharmonia Orchestra Conductor, Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras

  7:50 am Darcy Luoma, CEO & Founder, Darcy Luoma Coaching and Consulting

  About our Speaker: Darcy Luoma, creator of Thoughtfully Fit®, is a Master Certified Coach, dynamic facilitator, and inspiring motivational speaker. She has worked as director for a U.S. Senator, deputy transition director for a governor, and on the national advance team for two U.S. presidential campaigns. As the owner and CEO of Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, she’s worked in forty-eight industries with more than five hundred organizations to create high-performing people and teams. The media has named Darcy the region’s favorite executive-and-life coach four times. Darcy balances her thriving business with raising her two energetic teenage daughters, adventure travel, and competing in triathlons.

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• Women of Wisdom (WOW) & Travelers First Monday Lunch

  • When
    November 03, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Imperial Gardens

  Join us on Monday, November 3, at noon for our monthly luncheon to talk travel (and other rewiree stuff). 

  No agenda, no expectations. Just a chance to casually enjoy the company of incredible women, most of whom (but not all) are or have been Tempo members at one time. Current Tempo membership is not required. 

  We will meet at noon at the Imperial Garden, University & Allen Blvd., in the private room (Garden Room) off the main dining room.  

  No reply or reservations needed. Friends welcome. 

  
  

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• November Networking: A Night of Connection, Compassion & Cookies!

  • When
    November 06, 2025
  •  
    4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Ronald McDonald House Charities Madison 2716 Marshall Court Madison, WI 53705
  • Spaces left
    7

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  Thursday, November 6 | 4:00-6:30pm

  Ronald McDonald House Charities Madison

  2716 Marshall Court, Madison, WI 53705

  $30 per Tempo member – Register by Friday, October 10
  Maximum participants: 12

  Registration costs are for the food for the families and for the cookie decorating

  Our November Networking event will be a heartwarming evening that blends meaningful service with sweet creativity! We're coming together to support families staying at the Ronald McDonald House by preparing a delicious dinner that brings comfort and care during challenging times.

  After dinner is in the oven, it's time to unleash your inner artist in a festive cookie decorating class—because nothing says “holiday spirit” like sprinkles and frosting! Once the lasagnas are out of the oven and all the cookies are decorated, we will prepare the for families to enjoy.

  No cooking or frosting skills required! Whether you're a kitchen pro or a total beginner, we've got you covered. Let’s make a difference together while having a blast. Register early—this one’s going to be sweet!

  About Volunteering to make a meal: Providing families with the comfort and warmth of a home-cooked meal after a long day at the hospital is a simple gift. Groups plan a menu to feed 35 guests, purchase ingredients and prepare the meal in our commercial-grade kitchen.

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• MSO Celebrates 100 Years

  • When
    November 11, 2025
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Madison Club
  • Registered
    25 registrants

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  MSO Celebrates 100 Years

  Speaker: John DeMain, Music Director

  Tuesday, November 11, 2025 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm |The Madison Club

  The Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO) reaches a milestone with the 2025-26 season, celebrating its 100th Anniversary season and joining the ranks of many of the leading U.S. symphony orchestras who have provided symphonic music to the communities they have served for 100 or more years. Join Music Director John DeMain as he discusses his professional journey that has led him around the world and eventually as the Maestro of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. John also will chat about his final season and the highlights of the 100th Anniversary Season. 

  About Our Speaker: In his 32nd and final season as music director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Grammy and Tony Award-winning conductor John DeMain is noted for his dynamic performances on concert and opera stages throughout the world. During more than three decades in Madison as the MSO music director, DeMain has consistently raised the quality of the orchestra and elevated the relevance of the organization in the community.

  His active conducting schedule has taken him to the stages of the National Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the symphonies of Seattle, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Columbus, Houston, San Antonio, Long Beach, and Jacksonville, along with the Pacific Symphony, Boston Pops, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of Seville, the Leipzig MDR Sinfonieorchester, and Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.  DeMain also serves as principal conductor for Madison Opera.

  November Lunch Choices: 

  • Panko crusted salmon, colcannon, mushroom melody, Dijon cream sauce
  • Veg: Butternut ravioli, brown butter roasted pumpkin, crispy brussels sprouts, maple–sage cream sauce, toasted walnuts

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• Book Bags & NFL Joint Meeting

  • When
    November 18, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Hosted by Donna Beestman in Community Room in The Oaks building

  

  Sitting Pretty, Rebekah Taussig

  Joint meeting with NFL to discuss this past year’s Go Big Read book, Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig.

  This meeting will be hosted by Donna Beestman in Community Room in The Oaks building at Oakwood Village, 6205 Mineral Point Rd.

  RSVP to donna.beestman@gmail.com.

  Questions? Contact Orange Schroeder,  Dana Erlandsen or Julie Underwood

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• Women of Wisdom (WOW) & Travelers First Monday Lunch

  • When
    December 01, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Imperial Gardens

  Join us on Monday, December 1, at noon for our monthly luncheon to talk travel (and other rewiree stuff). 

  No agenda, no expectations. Just a chance to casually enjoy the company of incredible women, most of whom (but not all) are or have been Tempo members at one time. Current Tempo membership is not required. 

  We will meet at noon at the Imperial Garden, University & Allen Blvd., in the private room (Garden Room) off the main dining room.  

  No reply or reservations needed. Friends welcome. 

  
  

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• TEMPO Madison Holiday Party

  • When
    December 04, 2025
  •  
    4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Madison Club

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  Join us for light appetizers, cash bar, and merriment! 

  We welcome guests who you would like to potential TEMPO Madison members 

  Appetizers and Cash Bar: All Members Complimentary

  Guests $35

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• NFL Book Club

  • When
    December 11, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    TBD

  

  Short History of Coffee, Gordon Kerr

  Selection & book Exchange Meeting

  Leader for Meeting is Christine Lidbury

  Location TBA

  Questions? Contact Dana Erlandsen or Julie Underwood

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• Book Bags

  • When
    December 16, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Jeane Kropp Home

  

  This is Happiness by Niall Williams

  Nominated by Orange Schroeder.

  Jeane Kropp will host.

  Her address is 1201 Burning Wood Way. RSVP to jeaneckropp@gmail.com 

  
  

  Questions? Contact Orange Schroeder

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• Women of Wisdom (WOW) & Travelers First Monday Lunch

  • When
    January 05, 2026
  •  
    12:00 PM
  • Location
    Imperial Gardens

  Join us on Monday, January 5, at noon for our monthly luncheon to talk travel (and other rewiree stuff). 

  No agenda, no expectations. Just a chance to casually enjoy the company of incredible women, most of whom (but not all) are or have been Tempo members at one time. Current Tempo membership is not required. 

  We will meet at noon at the Imperial Garden, University & Allen Blvd., in the private room (Garden Room) off the main dining room.  

  No reply or reservations needed. Friends welcome. 

  
  

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• Book Bags

  • When
    January 20, 2026
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Martha Sullivan's Home

  

  Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

  Nominated by Martha Sullivan

  Nominated by Martha Sullivan, who will host the meeting.

  Her address is 1917 Manchester Crossing in Waunakee.

  RSVP to msullivan@provenancehill.com.

  Questions? Contact Orange Schroeder

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